And maybe mitigate or eliminate a possible extinction event down the road.

it's no longer possible for someone to be a teacher in France while being openly Jewish

Do you have any non-crackpot, non-Zonist citation for that? I'm not seeing anything on the Google.

reality is there will be collateral damage in fighting terrorists sometimes

if you travel to the middle east, don't be surprise if terrorists grab you and hold/torture/behead you

Funny, that's not what you said about the 4 guys who died in the Benghazi attack.

Executive Actions:

Ronald Reagan: 381
George W Bush: 291
Barack Obama: 205

When did Congress pass a declaration of war on Pakistan?

The same day they declared war on Iraq, Afghanistan, Viet Nam, Grenada, Libya, Serbia, ...

Rep Broun is hardly a valid example and I doubt anyone outside of his Georgia district has even heard of him.

Yet Republicans saw fit to appoint this young-Earth creationist to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science.

It doesn't matter whether or not anyone outside of Georgia heard of him. He was on the committee overseeing US science policy for chrissake.]

But even taking it as truth, Rubio did not say the earth was created 6 thousand years ago. He was talking about the length of the actual creation event.

Wait, the actual creation event? I'm pretty sure we're done here.

I know you prefer people that just give lip service to Christianity (Obama), but to discount people based on their belief in God is just as ridiculous

I don't discount people who believe in God. I discount people who believe the Earth was built in 7 days, 6000 years ago and want to oversee national policy on Science. Somebody please tell me here: Am I being unreasonable? What's next, having an anti-vaxxer who believes we are in the End Times running the Center for Disease Control? Because there are such people in the Republican Party, and prominent ones, too. Let me guess, you want...examples?

Problem solved.

Examples?

Yeah, yeah

Marco Rubio, (R-FL)

http://mic.com/articles/19382/...

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/1...

Among the faith-deranged, Rubio stands out. He briefly dumped one magic book for another, converting from Roman Catholicism to Mormonism and then back again. (Reporters take note: This is faith-fueled flip-flopping, which surely indicates a damning character flaw to be investigated. Flip-flopping of a different sort helped sink John Kerry’s 2004 presidential bid.) Yet even as a re-minted Catholic, Rubio cheats on the Pope with a megachurch in Miami called Christ Fellowship. As religion and politics blogger Bruce Wilson points out, Christ Fellowship is a hotbed of “demonology and exorcism, Young Earth creationism, and denial of evolution,” and is so intolerant it demands its prospective employees certify they are not “practicing homosexuals” and don’t cheat on their spouses. (Check out its manifesto under “About Us – What We Believe.”) As regards evolution, Rubio confesses that he’s “not a scientist” and so cannot presume to judge the fact of evolution on its merits, and holds that creationism should be taught in schools as just one of many “multiple theories” about our origins.

Representative Paul Broun (R-GA). Young Earth creationist and former member of the fucking House Committee on Science.

Here's a quote from a 2012 speech that Rep Broun gave:

"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior. You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I’ve found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says."

And, Mr. "Where is the Proof", if you don't believe my quote, here is a video of Rep Broun's entire speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh wait, the link doesn't work because it was taken down eight months before the 2014 elections.

But as long as we're rolling with Rep Broun, here's another quote from the same speech:

"And what I’ve come to learn is that it’s the manufacturer’s handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that’s the reason as your congressman I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that."

[In 2014, Rep Broun left office to run for Saxby Chambliss' Senate seat from Georgia. May God have mercy on our souls.]

If you want more examples, I can provide them, but I've used up enough space doing simple Google searches that you could have done for yourself.

But understanding and countering the social engineering skills used by many hackers could undermine the proselytizing that many evangelicals do which use the very same social engineering techniques.

That's very good. I had not thought of it that way.

Another text in this collected wisdom authoritatively cites Aristotle as saying that Pythagorus invented the Scroll Lock key. Literally. It's a little key you lock the scroll with.

Yeah, and you won't find many conservatives who believe that

Just the ones who get elected.

Three quarters of a TRILLION dollars, for a fighter that by your own admission is not really suitable for any of the branches' needs.

Dude.

They've got the time (and their parent's PC) to do it, just not the money.

Here's how it's done:

"Mom, Dad, I've developed a serious interest in creating resources for games. It will increase my artistic skill and understanding of how games are built and developed. Plus it's great fun, and it allows me to be a valued member of a community of other creative types. Of course, I'll always finish my homework and chores first, but do you think you could spend the price of a Grande Mochachino at the next Steam sale so I can reach the threshold which allows me to participate in this wholesome, educational and character-building activity? It's a one-time cost for a lifetime of fun and educational activity."

Now, if it's not worth the effort and social engineering required to pull this off, then your hypothetical child of the parents with the means to buy a computer capable of running games and yet is too poor to spend $5 on a game probably lacks the will to actually be a good member of the community.

Right this minute, you can go get Don't Starve, plus the Reign of Giants DLC for $6.45. This is a great game for the Mod Workshop and has an active and engaged community. And that one-time expense opens up the entire Steam universe of F2P games.

I'd think I was crazy except my parents still have a landline, and when someone calls them the name for that number pops right up.

Of course it does.

Who even answers calls except the ones coming from people they know? What, are you expecting Publisher's Clearing House to call with your sweepstakes winnings? This is what voice mail is for, and I don't even have to listen to the calls because my voice mails are transcribed.

If a call comes from a local hospital, I'd pick up in case something happened to my wife or daughter, but other than that, I just tell Android to hold all my calls. I'm a busy man, I don't have time for chit chat.

It's funny, but I'm so used to ignoring incoming calls that when I play GTA V, and one of the other characters calls me about a heist or something, I barely react to the sound of the phone ringing. I'm like, "Hell, just text me with the location of the heist and leave me alone". I gotta go get a haircut, and I'm thinking about getting that three-rail fade or maybe cornrows.